Cultural diversity and development among the Kharvi a fishing community in western coast of India

Bharat, better known to the outside world as India or Hindustan is the home of one of the richest living civilizations of the world rightfully claiming continuity from beyond the farthest known antiquity of human society. The highly developed and planned settlements exposed in excavation at Harappa, Mohenjdaro and many other sites on river banks collectively known as Indus valley civilization bears objective and physical evidence to this. On the other hand the relevance and continuity in practice and usage of the ancient literary texts like Vedas with its four components of Samhita Aranyaka, Brahmanas and Upanishads, Puranas, Ithihasa (Ramayana and Mahabharatha), Dharmashasthra/Suthras, Sangam literature the Jain Agamas and the Buddhist Tripitika many of which were being orally transmitted from generation to generation taking utmost care to preserve even the specific phonetic nuances to the minutest level, in all major aspects of life like spirituality religion, politics, economy, art and literature at individual community and national levels is a living testimony. In this long life of this civilization spanning over millennia, it had many occasions of exposure, contact and interaction with many civilizations and culture from beyond its natural geographical boundaries of the great Himalayan range of mountains in the north and the three seas surrounding it from east, south and the west.